Asylum shopping

Asylum shopping or shopping as regards asylum , indicates the practice which consists, for Réfugié S, to deposit requests for Political asylum in several States (primarily of the European Union) so as to choose that which will offira the best conditions of reception or best social protection to him.

To limit this phenomenon, the European authorities endeavor to harmonize their social legislation and preach a better distribution of the assistances, which led to the installation of Funds European for the refugees in September 2000.

The payment “Dublin II”, adopted in February 2003, allots the responsibility for the examination of a request for asylum to the State which took the greatest part in the entry of request asylum. This measurement was installation precisely to avoid the multiple requests for asylum and to fight against the asylum shopping .

To protect itself from this practice, the majority of the European States began in restrictive policies, like the the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, which adopted Aliens Act in April 2001, or the Italy, with the law “Bossi-Finished” of July 2002. These measurements caused to reduce attributions of the statute of refugee.

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